Larry Wall Quotes

(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...

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• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• Let's hope you feel better now.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Hope
  • Feel
  • Better

• When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Creativity

• Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Healthy
  • Sustainable

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Justice

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Me
  • End
  • Producing

• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Just
  • Opinions

• Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Members
  • Accused

• The difficulty of rising into the air increases rapidly with the size of the apparatus. The uplifting of a single person, therefore, is more easily attained than that of a large flying machine loaded with several persons.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Single
  • Air
  • Flying

• Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Character

• The crisis of the West is a collapsing culture and vanishing peoples, as a Third World that grows by 100 million people, the equivalent of a new Mexico, every 18 months, mounts the greatest invasion in history of the world. If we do not shake off our paralysis, the West comes to an end.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Dream

• I have not eaten beef for 26 years. Chicken, poultry for 16 years. Fish for six, if forced to I will eat shrimp.

  

  Constance Marie

• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children

• For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

  

  David Novak
  • Law
  • Question
  • Democracy

• I'm a chicken and fish guy, but I throw a burger in once, maybe twice a week.

  

  Jason Winston George
  • Guy

• I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Intelligent

• You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.

  

  Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many people have written, directed AND starred in their own movies. I just don't know why they would want to put words into my mouth, I mean I did write, direct AND star in a critically acclaimed movie.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• (Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...

  

  Larry Wall